• 2020-04-26

In what has been a crazy year for Nevada, the Public Utilities Commission is ending on an equally crzay note, proposing 1 GW of energy storage to be deployed across the state by the last day of 2030. ...

• 2020-06-01

A study released by nature energy has found that residential solar installations are dispersed nearly equivalently among democrats and republicans and that solar households are more politically active...

• 2020-06-01

It’s all about the benjamins – and it seems solar power is getting better at printing them a little more every single day. Researchers at the Oregon State’s College of Agricultural Sciences, in the re...

• 2020-06-01

With wide adoption of electric vehicles and heat pumps, Colorado’s least-cost grid would reach 21 GW of solar capacity, 12 GW of wind, and 7 GW of storage by 2040, while electric rates would decline. ...

• 2020-06-01

Oceans of Energy, a spin-off of Netherland’s Delft University of Technology, has finished installing the first section of an offshore PV system it is developing with a local consortium in the North Se...

• 2020-06-01

There is no dramatic drop-off in solar potential in the continental U.S. as you move away from the desert Southwest—as you might suppose from the colors of the federal map at left. To help promote und...

• 2020-06-01

For battery power, it was the fifth highest volume deployed while battery capacity was the third highest month. The research group noted 32% growth in megawatts deployed over Q2’19 in the above image,...

• 2020-06-01

The preliminary draft of the climate policy package presented by German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the recent UN Climate Action Summit in New York dedicated a single phrase to solar energy, stating t...

• 2020-06-01

Don’t look now, but a new trend may be forming within the solar industry. Earlier this week, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey made public plans to construct a 13 MW, 7.5 MWh solar + stora...

• 2020-06-01

State regulators in Idaho shot down Idaho Power’s proposal to decrease the net metering rate for residential solar owners by 50% — with a unanimous vote. The measure was defeated when the Idaho Public...

• 2020-06-01

Solar panels can convert light energy into electricity, which brings great convenience to outdoor lighting, but many people may think of a problem. As a new energy source, solar energy is energy-savin...

• 2020-06-01

A decade ago, entrepreneurs and investors alike believed that silicon wafer-based photovoltaics would soon be a relic. Tens of billions of venture and corporate dollars chased novel technologies that ...